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Do you prefer Jim Ratcliffe's bid or Jassim's? Let us know in the comments
A 100% take over has to be done if United wants to move forward.
United are crap. I’m done with this club
Till Glazers are gone I’m not watching another game, not even on stream
I get my shirts from unofficial sites just so they don’t get money. Everyone should follow suite
Jo presenting solo brings a new dynamic to the channel and is a net positive. Interesting, measured n thoughtful .
The fact that Beckham has gone on US news and said it's time for a change in the ownership of Man Utd is highly relevant. Him and his people wouldn't even agree to discuss it in a formal interview unless they were trying to create some movement of some kind. It amounts to a public criticism of the Glazers while not being overly critical. Maybe Quatari's using Beckham to poke the snake?
Imagine if no one mentioned takeovers until a takeover was actually done? We'd hear about it one time when it's relevant. We have heard it 1,000 times and no one's took us over up to now.
everything Ratcliffe does succeeds..Ineos is huge..part owners of Mercedes..Glazers will be gone soon enough..British owned is WAY better than a plaything for a shadowy Billionaire Sheik with close contacts with a Qatari government who SUPPORT HAMAS..United supporters need a reality check..we lost the heart and soul of the club to Yank Jews and now they want a radical Arab in instead🤔🙄
Eenny, meeny, minny, mo comes to mind. Nearly a year of crap on who is going to buy the club. Until I see someone at OT saying he or she has bought the club, it's all BS.
So Sir Jim buys 25% of the club. Gives the gimps a big fat cheque to share between themselves, and pays off some of the private investors.
Then what? Jas he got another billion quid to throw in the pot to redevelop old Trafford and Carrington? Makes zero sense to me how that helps us in any way. Just sounds like another big dividend for Joel, Avram, darcy, Bob, Tony and Steve, whilst we keep the same level of debt, same people making decisions, another few years, at least, of OT rotting, and more of this FFP bullshit in every transfer window!
I can also see the arse falling out of the share price if they try doing that. The share price is massively overinflated because people have bought in expecting to double their money when the sale goes through. How will investors react when only a quarter of their shares can be sold at the premium price, while the other 75% have to stay on the open market, worth less than half of what they were expecting to get?
Hed have been better off buying up all of the A class shares first, at market value, and then negotiate with the gimps for their shares at a premium price. Probably could have even saved a billion quid too…
We all want the Glazers fully out of the club but surely Ratcliffe buying some stake and diluting their power has to be a positive. Plus Ratcliffe is no fool, he is not going to spend 1B buying shares to have no power when it comes to decision making.
I appreciate you have a business to run, and that there’s money in this story, but lets be honest; nobody knows whats going on. Raine Group/Glazers have done an excellent job in keeping this quiet, and frankly, they’ve made mugs out of the press, who are constantly guessing. Nobody knows whats going on. Nobody actually knows if there have been other bids that have been kept confidential. We just dont know. So until a deal is announced, i see no point in engaging with this constant barrage of speculation and rumour
This is all bollix.
Qatar would have us traveling the desert every pre-season while the tour bus dodges missiles and IEDs.
At least we’d have Mbappe on the bus I guess 🤷♂️
Boring !!!!!!
No one has a clue what’s going on, it’s pure speculation. If you want the club to improve, we need money, if you are happy for it to decline and other clubs overtake us, go for Ineos! It’s not Ratcliffe it’s Ineos a multinational company whose shareholders will want a return on their investment. Ineos are Glazers 2.0 so that will be worse than them doing nothing!
As much as I don't want jassim, I worry if he's not successful, United fan or not, his next call will be to FSG
Rooney’s Bobby Charlton record equaling goal was a free kick like McTominay’s. I think it made it 2-2 away at Stoke
Had enough, this channel or at least Jay and Joe seem to be in favour of Sir Jim. I cant imagine where it comes from….
Do the maths. If the Glazers have 69% and they sell 25, they then only have 44% that leaves them as minority shareholders. Now we know that they have the class shares which give them more votes. So, if Sir jim has a clause built in that his shares are the same class as the glazers, plus the other 31% type of shares that are not controlled by the glazers, then he doesn't need 51% to take control. I can't do the maths, but all he needs is the co-operation of the other shareholders, and maybe only one other Glazer sibling to sell to have control of the club and force them out.
I honestly think it’s stock market manipulation at this point. They’re buying options on ManU stock and manipulating the price by releasing news. Squeezing more $$$$ out
It seems Jim has a plan b coz glaziers own 69 percent Jim buys half of that and then other 31 percent he slowly buys that which glaziers not thinking of that if that happens Jim becomes majority owner
No shame, this guy isn't wanted by a mass % of United fans but he's still attempting to buy the club. He's just another Glazer just British and isn't going to change the club for the better. It just goes to show his shithousery character that he is still willing to buy the club even though he's going to be hated. Folk complain of the dividends, you muppets who want him here he's the king of rinsing money from businesses.
who cares anymore?
I'd take Jim over Qatar any day. The most important thing just now is on the pitch. It's simply not good enough.
So if the investment gets us away from FFP then that's the upside here.
It’s all a load of bollocks… Glazers leaking that Jim’s in the lead to squeeze more out of Qatar they are nothing but parasites pinching every last penny they can
Sir jim being a minority share holder wont change a thing. Now even the qataris will be acting like the glazers have been if they end up upping the bid something if the end up upping it should have done months ago. All in all we utd better buckle up cause the road ahead will be very bumpy
Sir Jim seems to be bidding for reasons completely unrelated to United success. He'll just pile on more debt and allow the glazers to keep their slimy claws in the club. The club will never be worth 6b if Sir Jim is the solution. Sir Jim doesn;t have the wealth to buy them out now or later.
Glazers has just made one of biggest mistakes in buissness thinking utd be worth 10 billion few years not with glazers and ratcliffe together shares will drop big time
No he did not say that he said he knows people who could sort utd not who was takeing over
It ratcliffe crazy paying all that money and not have any say
There is gas and oil on utd training ground that’s why ratcliffe wants utd
If SJR buys 25% of Utd, none of the revenue generated will go to the club so, for fans, this is a definite no no.
Don't feel Ratcliffe is a good option as it appears the debt stays, and even worse, two of the leeches are still hanging on (even if only in the background, it's not enough, they need to be gone completely).
Trust me jassim is the best
This whole sale process is being spun every which way and until we get a definitive conclusion its all hearsay and guessing and how many times they have flip flopped shows just that.
I can't see any benefits to the club or fans if SJR gets 25%. The Glazers stay in control for the foreseeable, the money goes into their pockets, the debt remains, the infrastructure continues to deteriorate. Even if Sir Jim builds his share, it will take years and he won't be able to invest in the ground etc even then, years later, because he won't have another £2bn (plus inflation) and he's no plans to get rid of the debt.
Jim, is going to be Glazer family part2. 1 part is Glazer and part 2 is Jim.
If sir Jim buys 25%, glazers will pocket that money and we will stay exactly the same, they aren’t going to invest that back into the club are they, it’s a really really bad situation if that’s the chosen bid. We need full sale only! And by someone who has the funds to invest in the stadium, facilities etc, I don’t feel sir jim can do that
To buy 25% and have no say in operations I just don’t get, that gives them leeches a chance to stay another 10 years and that will be a disaster, it seems sir Jim can’t afford or won’t stump up the money for a full takeover, let alone invest +2billion into facilities, stadium etc and then money into the team, just can’t see how he will benefit the club
Don't want Jim Glazer
No! This is gonna end in a whimper 😢
Beckham knows as much about the take over as me, which is nothing.
We don't have true fans at united just a shower of brainless idiots. I will as a true fan never set foot in Old Trafford again with these parasites Glazers and their cash cow. They won't get a penny off me I hope we get relegated im sick of this Glazer club its not manchester united its Glazers.
All this will do is prolong the Glazers stay. United will be like Everton in 5 years.
I've said it before and I'll say it again – United have the dumbest fans in football.
Jim needs time and money to buy the club whole…. Red flag and red flag? You dont go to the supermarket and say, i dont have money for groceries but ill keep coming back with not enough money for the next 10 years deal?My god, Jassim could get rid of the debt now and of the Glazers. And people want Jim… who will keep Glazers and us suffering for another 10 years ffs